Beef and chicken meat play a very crucial role in providing food to South African consumers. However, the rise of food prices in South Africa is viewed to curtail progress and drives consumers into debt and forgone opportunity ...
Agriculture is regarded as one of the pillars for economic development for most developing countries including South Africa; however youth participation in the sector is minimal. Similar to the situation in many other ...
Our discussion starts with the study of convergence and clustering of filters initiated in
pointfree setting by Hong, and then characterize compact and almost compact frames
in terms of these filters. We consider the ...
South Africa is characterised by low production which can be attributed to a lack of diversification and flexibility in agricultural production. There has been an explosive change in consumer-food relationships due to ...
Using the ARFIMA (autoregressive and fractionally integrated moving aver age) model extended with sGARCH (standard generalised autoregressive con ditional heteroscedasticity) and ’gjrGARCH (Glosten-Jagannathan-Runkle gen ...
The purpose of this study was to analyse socioeconomic factors influencing formal and informal market participation by beef cattle farmers. Cattle production plays an important role in the provision of food worldwide. It ...
Nature reserves are reservoirs for biodiversity. Their very purpose is to preserve indigenous fauna and flora and thus protect associated ecosystem services. The Schuinsdraai Nature Reserve of rural Sekhukhune District, ...
The agricultural sector is dominated by broiler production and it is the key source of
animal proteins followed by beef. South Africa is described as a net importer of chicken
meat, given that broiler consumption of ...
The unique phytochemical composition of the medicinal plant cancer bush (Sutherlandia frutescens) have made its foliage to gain much attention in South Africa due to its health benefits. In situ harvesting of the plant ...
Breast cancer is a malignant tumour that starts in the cells of the breast. Many studies
revealed aromatase (CYP19A1) and cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) as possible
therapeutic targets regarding breast cancer treatment, ...
Avocado fruit ‘Hass’ exocarp changes colour from green to purple and black during
ripening. However, uniform purple or black exocarp colour is not achieved during
ripening, leading to consumers' rejection of fruit for ...
The South African Avocado Industry has recently announced plans to expand
exports into new markets, such as the United States (US). As a requirement for
these markets, fruit of high quality must be stored at ultra-low ...
In South Africa, livestock production is a rapidly growing business in the agricultural
sector contributing up to 46.9% of the gross domestic value. The shortage of
adequate, good quality forage during the winter months ...
The awareness of the nutritional benefit and consumption of the Jew’s mallow (Corchorus olitorius L.) especially in South Africa is low; this is predominantly because of lack of access and availability of the crop in the ...
The world is under threat from the devastating effects of the continued
depletion of the Ozone layer. Increased global warming is causing
catastrophic ecological damage and imbalance due to accelerated
melting of glaciers, ...
Artemisia annua L. from the family Asteraceae is an annual medicinal plant and has been used to make herbal remedies in Asia for thousands of years. Artemisinin is a sesquiterpene lactone, isolated from aerial parts of ...
The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of pre-harvest bagging materials
on maturity indices and post-harvest quality of cherry tomatoes. At pre-harvest, fruit
were bagged with blue and transparent plastic ...
Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is an important cash crop, which remains one of the
largest sources of income and a way of sustaining livelihoods for rural households in
South Africa. Smallholder farming in most rural areas ...
Due to high incidents of drought in the semi-arid regions of Limpopo Province, South
Africa, the potential feasibility of using treated wastewater for irrigating vegetable crops
had been researched and developed under ...
Many researchers in different parts of the world have advocated the use of irrigation water to reduce levels of poverty, especially among rural households. This is made possible through the development of irrigation schemes ...